Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-22

called to give It's g~eographical oounda-
| nv, | would say it is bounded on the
| N nth and South and East and West by
the great heart OF
GODS SYMPATHY AND LOVE.
Oh, il is a great world. Since o
o'clock this morning sixty thousand
eight hundred persons have been born,
and all these multiplied populations are
to be reached of the Gospel. In Eng
land, or our eastern American cities,
| we are being much crowded, and an
acre of ground is of great value. but
| out West five hundred acres is a small
farm, and twenty thousand acres is no
unusual possession. There is "a vast
field here and everywhere u%noccupied,
| plenty of room more, not building on
another mans foundation.
We need as churches to stop bonn
harding the old iron clad sinners that
have been proof against thirty years of
Christian assault. Alas for that church
which lacks the spirit of evangelism,
, spending IN N chandelier enough to
light five hundred souls to glory. and
in one carved pillar enough to have
made a thousand men ''pillars in the
| house of our God forever" and doing
less good than many a log cabin meet
wooden sockets, and a minister who
has never seen a college, or known the
| difference between Greek or Choctaw.
We need as churches to get into SYM
pathy with
THE GREAT OUTSIDE WORLD,
and let them know that none are SO
broken-hearted or hardly bestead tina,
will not be welcomed. 'No!" says
some fastidious Christian, II don'tlike
to be crowded in church. Don't put
any one in my pew" My brother,
what will you do in heavenp When a
great multitude that no man a num-
Der assemblies they will put fifty inyour
pew. What are the select few to-day
assembled in the Christian churches
compared with the mightier millions
outside of them, eight hundred thous-
and in Brooklyn, but less than one
hundred thousand in the churchesP
Many of the churches a:e like a hos
pital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing worse than
toothache or run rounds" but no
broken heads, no crushed ankles, no
fractured thighs. Give us for treat
ment moderate sinners, velvet-coated
sinners and sinners with a gloss on. 1t
is as though a man had a farm ofthree
thousand acres and put all his work on
one acre. He may raise never SO large
ears of corn, never SO big heads OF
wheat, he would remain poor. The
church of God has bestowea its chief
care on one acre, and has raised SPLEEN
did men and women in that small en-
closure, bu> the field is the world.
That means North and South America,
Europe, Asia and all the islands of the
sea. 1t is as though after a
GREAT BATTLE
there were left so, 900 wounded and dy-
ing on the field, and three surgeons
gave all their time to three patients
under their charge. The major-gen-
eral comes in and says to the doctors:
s'Come out here and look at the nearly
nifty thousand dying for lack Of surgi-
cal attendance" NO." say the three
doctors, standing there tanning their
patients, "we have three important
cases here, and we are attending to
them, and when we are not positively
busy with their wounds, it takes all
our time to keep the flies on" In this
awful battle of sin and sorrow, where
millions have fallen on millions, do not
let us spend all our time in taking care
of a few people, and when the COM
mand comes: go into the world"
say practically: mo, l cannot go, l
have here a few choice cases, and | am
busy keeping of the flies" There are
multitudes to-day who have never had
any Christian worker to look them in
the eye, and with earnestness in the
accentuation, say, "Come!" or they
would long ago have been in the king
dom. My friends, religion is either a
sham or a tremendous reality. If it be
a sham, let us disband our churches
and Christian association. Ii it be a
reality, then great populations are on
the way 20 the bar of God untitled for
the ordeal, and what are we doingp
THE Way TO REACH OUTSIDERS.
In order to reach the multitude of
outsiders We must drop all technicali-
ties out of our religion. When we talk
to people about the hypostatic union
and French encyclopedianism, and
erastinlanism, and complutensianism.
we are as ~impolitic and little under
stood as if a physician should talk to
an ordinary patient about the peri
cardium, and intercostal muscle, and
symptoms. Many of us come
out of the theological seminaries so
loaded up that we take the first ten
years to show u people how much we
know, and the next ten Years
get our people TO know as much
as we krow, and at the end find that
of us know anything rs we
ought to know. Here are hundreds
and thousands of SHINING. struggling,
md dying people who need to realize
just IN thing-that JESUS Christ came
to save them, and will save them now.
But we go into a profound and elabo-
rate definition of what justification is,
and after all the work there are not,
of the learned professions, five
thousand people in the United States